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The waters where Olympians will compete in swimming and boating events next summer in South America's first games "are rife with human sewage and present a serious health risk for athletes, as well as for visitors," according to the AP. An AP investigation "found dangerously high levels of viruses a...

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Brazil's federal internal revenue service, the Receita Federal (RS), said that it has been "running an investigation of fraud in football" within the country since '02, according to Jay Forte of the RIO TIMES. RS' announcement was made two days after the U.S. FBI "arrested seven leaders" from FIFA f ...

Brazil's upper house has "voted to launch a congressional inquiry into corruption allegations" relating to the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) and its hosting of the 2014 World Cup, according to Joe Leahy of the FINANCIAL TIMES. The move comes as Brazil's federal police "launch a parallel i ...

Rio de Janeiro will soon have its own museum dedicated to Brazil's Olympic history. Following an agreement signed on Friday by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB), the museum will be built on the Ilha de Pombeba in Barra da Tijuca, just behind the Athletes' Village. The area will also be the ...

Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) President Marco Polo Del Nero left the FIFA Congress a day early to "return to Brazil" and handle the "crisis" at the CBF, according to MAQUINA DO ESPORTE. Del Nero's return "is directly linked" to the arrest of former President José Maria Marin . The ...

The football corruption investigations of the U.S. Department of Justice indicated that former Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) President José Maria Marin, one of Wednesday's arrested FIFA execs , "shared bribes" for the commercial rights of the Copa do Brasil with predecessor Ricardo T ...

The indictment of FIFA officials by a U.S. grand jury said that an unidentified sportswear company "bribed" a Brazilian football official for a sponsorship deal -- a deal that "seems to mirror one obtained by Nike," according to Townsend & Panja of BLOOMBERG. The indictment "refers to a U.S. c ...

Members of the Rio 2016 organizing committee "paid a technical visit" on Tuesday to the Arena Amazônia in Manaus to inspect and analyze the structure "offered by the city for the Olympic football tournament," according to GLOBO ESPORTE. Rio 2016 members also "exchanged experiences with local p ...

This season has "not been easy" in terms of finances for Brasileiro side Fluminense as the club "paid 13 late player and employee salaries on Tuesday alone and it still owes" salaries for the month of April and two months of image rights to players, according to LANCEPRESS. After the loss of sponsor ...

Brazilian weightlifting "will receive a modern training center in the coming months" as a result of an approximately R$6M ($2M) investment from the country's ministries of sports and defense, according to Flávio Dilascio of GLOBO ESPORTE. The center will be built in Rio de Janeiro's Adalberto ...